Comedy

• Saturday Night Live - Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Saturday Night Live: Kings of Comedy Collection 1 (4 Discs)

• Award Winners Triple (Walk The Line, Sideways, Good Night & Good Luck) | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Walk The Line (Dir. James Mangold 2005): In 1955 a tough skinny guitar-slinger who called himself J.R. Cash walked into the soon-to-be-famous Sun Studios in Memphis. It was a moment that would have an indelible effect on American culture. With his driving freight-train chords steel-eyed intensity and a voice as deep and black as night Cash sang blistering songs of heartache and survival that were gutsy full of real life and unlike anything heard before. That day kicked off the electrifying early career of Johnny Cash. As he pioneered a fiercely original sound that blazed a trail for rock country punk folk and rap stars to come Cash began a rough-and-tumble journey of personal transformation. In the most volatile period of his life he evolved from a self-destructive pop star into the iconic 'Man in Black' - facing down his demons fighting for the love that would save him time and again and learning how to walk the razor-thin line between destruction and redemption. Sideways (Dir. Alexander Payne 2004): A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's (Thomas Haden Church) final days as a bachelor careers woefully sideways as he and Miles (Paul Giamatti) hit the gas en route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth soon find themselves drowning in wine and women (Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen). Emerging from a haze of pinot noir wistful yearnings and trepidation about the future the two inevitably collide with reality. Now the wedding approaches and with it the certainty that Miles and Jack won't make it back to Los Angeles unscathed or unchanged... if they get there in one piece at all. Winner of the 2005 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Good Night And Good Luck (Dir. George Clooney 2005): George Clooney's second film as director takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow (Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy with the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public Murrow and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly (Clooney) and Joe Wershba (Downey Jr.) in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental.

• Baby Mama | Blu Ray | (16/03/2009) from £10.78   |  Saving you £14.21 (131.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In a comedy that brings together some of today's sharpest talent, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team with writer/director Michael McCullers to tell the story of two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives forever.

• Grim Weekend | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £12.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shy and retiring young executive Brandon Walker invites a select group of friends for a quiet weekend in the country. Denise a hitchhiker joins them and soon fills them with a sense of dread with her fireside tales of true revenge killing sprees. Nightmare tales can come true...

• Lemon Popsicle 3 - Hot Bubblegum | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Further adventures of Bobby Benji and Huey in their pursuit of sex in the 50's. While preparing for their final exams they try to work out if it's better to be going steady with one girl and if changing girlfriends all the time leads to too many complications. this leads to frustration with girls who wont go all the way and problems with girls who will go all the way with anyone!

• Krippendorf's Tribe | DVD | (22/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! After squandering his grant money despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts makeup and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the ""Shelmikedmu "" a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse he gets into the act as we

• Dick Spanner P.I. | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A tongue-in-cheek stop-animation series starring mild-mannered private investigator Dick Spanner the creation of Terry Adlam and Gerry Anderson. Originally screened on television as part of the series Network Seven this DVD features Dick Spanner in two investigations complete with lots of sight gags wisecracks and satire throughout. Dick Spanner is voiced by Shane Rimmer who was previously the voice of Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds. As a bonus there are interviews with Gerry Anderson at the end of each serial and a new video to go with the theme song.

• Just Buried | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £4.88   |  Saving you £13.11 (268.65%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Just Buried is a ruthlessly twisted dark comedy about ambition, greed, sex and death. When Oliver (Jay Baruchel) returns to his small-town home to attend his estranged father's funeral, his uneventful life suddenly takes a turn. He has just inherited the family business - a funeral home on the verge of bankruptcy. Aided and abetted by the bewitching embalmer Roberta (Rose Byrne), Oliver accidentally, and then not-so-accidentally, provides himself with paying customers. Together they ...

• Round Ireland With A Fridge | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Round Ireland With A Fridge

• Laurel And Hardy - For Love Of Mummy | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £11.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (10.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Their uncles paved the way for their hijinks... Now all they want is their mummy. When Ollie falls for a museum curator's daughter they get mixed up in a scheme involving a missing mummy. Bronson Pinchot and Gailard Sartain attempt to re-create the magic of one of Hollywood's most beloved comedy teams. Shot in South Africa and co-produced and directed by Larry Harmon.

• The World According To Garp | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This is the splendid film adaptation of John Irving's bestseller. Robin Williams plays the role of T.S. Garp a complex and unpredictabale young man at odds with a violent and cruel world... The World According To Garp earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor: one for John Lithgow; and the other for Glenn Close as Best Supporting Actress.

• Benny Hill Show - 1975 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £9.67   |  Saving you £5.32 (55.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For nearly four decades Benny Hill reigned supreme as the king of bawdy humour and seaside postcard-style japery on British television. Undoubtedly out of his entire body of work it is the shows that he did for Thames television in the 1970s for which he is best remembered with their combination of high-speed farce risqu jokes and beautiful ladies. It is these shows that undoubtedly turned him into a global superstar - topping the ratings in America also. With his 'three stooges'

• Leonard Rossiter, British Comedy Heroes | DVD | (08/11/2008) from £3.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (151.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this hilarious programme we revisit some of Leonard Rossiter's funniest moments from an illustrious career that has made him one of Britain's best loved comedy heroes. Laugh again at some of the best sketches ever written for television and film and a few that may have escaped you from his earlier career. In addition to archive interviews with Mr Rossiter himself we also hear the first hand reflections of co-stars and friends Bruce Bould John Barron John Wells Sue Nicholls Eric Chappel and Don Warrington who all pay tribute to the comic genius that was Leonard Rositter. Although sadly missed Leonard Rossiter will continue to entertain us on TV screens for years to come via the comic legacy that is 'Rising Damp' 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin' 'Billy Liar' and 'The Losers' and much more.

• Gas-s-s-s | DVD | (04/01/2016) from £13.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (44.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When the US military accidentally release a noxious substance that causes 'death from instant old age', everyone over twenty-five dies and the youth of America are left to their own devices to invent a new world order. Fresh from bringing the late-60s counter-cultural explosion to the screen in The Trip, Roger Corman delivers his most ambitious and anarchic take on the 'Love Generation' yet - a free-wheeling blend of acid rock, far-out humour and psychedelic excess that faithfully captures the revolutionary spirit of its time. The Guardian Interview with Roger Corman (1970, audio only): archival interview held at the NFT Original theatrical trailer

• Father's Little Dividend | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £6.41   |  Saving you £-4.42 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Having finally accepted that his daughter is married Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy) has now to deal with the news that she is pregnant! The news leads to a dispute between both the maternal and paternal grandparents... A sequel to Father Of The Bride which also starred Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett.

• The Settlement | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £5.71   |  Saving you £1.27 (46.69%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Dying is a lousy way to make a living. Two con artists develop a scheme to make money off the life insurance policies of ill patients until they are out-smarted by a woman with an inoperable brain tumour.

• Snow White and the Three Stooges | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Its good vs. evil in this hilariously stooged rendition of the classic fairy tale. When a benevolent king (Edgar Barrier) dies, his evil wife (Patricia Medina) locks up the man's beautiful daughter, Snow White (Olympic ice skating champion Carol Heiss), in order to claim the kingdom for herself.When the princess escapes and makes her way to the dwarves cottage she meets their houseguests - three very helpful performer's - Larry, Moe and Curly-Joe. In this frolicking winner of the 1961 WGA Award for Best Written American Musical, The Stooges' seek to restore harmony in the land and inspire romance between Snow White and her prince.

• Chunky Monkey | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £7.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (100.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fitness fanatic Donald Leek indulges in a monthly Chunky Monkey experience with someone vaguely resembling movie-songstress Julie Andrews who he's expecting at 7:30pm. His obsession with Ms. Andrews (and her posterior) is somewhat disturbing to say the least. Before she arrives however he has to dispose of the body parts of Mr Azam manager of his favourite Indian restaurant who has neglected to send him a Christmas card. He is interrupted by a peculiar assortment of unwelcome

• Will Hay - Good Morning Boys / Hey! Hey! USA | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (62.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1937's Good Morning Boys Will Hay plays the pompous but ill-qualified headmaster of St Michael's, Dr Benjamin Twist, who befuddles his class with meaningless mathematical equations while they set their wits to constructing booby traps for him. However, when his boys pass an inter-schools examination, having seen the French paper in advance, they're invited by the French educational authorities to Paris and become involved in a plot to steal the Mona Lisa. Although it is at times too silly plot-wise even for those with a high endurance for farce, Good Morning, Boys is another fine showcase for Hay to display his well-honed repertoire of tics, double-takes and blathering half-sense. In Hey! Hey! USA!, a 1938 comedy intended to boost Hay's stock in America, he again plays Dr Twist who becomes tutor to millionaire's son Bernie Schulz aboard an Atlantic liner. Predictably the boy knows more about all aspects of history than Hay, having to remind him that Britain lost in the War of Independence against America. "Yes, but we sent our second eleven," Hay reminds him, "And we were playing away." Further capers ensue when two rival gangs attempt to capture the precocious lad, with his parents dispatching Hay to pass on the ransom money. Hey! Hey! USA!has its moments, but despite the presence of old Laurel and Hardy sidekicks Edgar Kennedy (as a dim-witted gangster) and Charlie Hall, this was too leaky a comedic vessel to transport Hay's peculiarly British UK success across the Atlantic. On the DVD: Good Morning Boys and Hey! Hey! USA! are presented on disc well restored from their original 1930s film stock, give or take the odd crackle. There are no extras except scene index. --David Stubbs

• Old School / Anchor Man | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £7.17   |  Saving you £5.82 (44.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy: His news is bigger than your news! Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is San Diego's top rated newsman in the male dominated broadcasting of the 1970's but that's all about to change when a new female employee with ambition to burn arrives in his office... Old School: Three men disenchanted with life decide to form their own fraternity in the hope of recapturing the glory of their college years!